HELP! How do I get them to survive?
Hey guys, I can't find this answer anywhere on the internet and people who I ask won't help.
My female ball python laid eggs 63 days ago, they didn't hatch on their own and we didn't want them drown so we looked up tutorials on YouTube on how to cut them open. We got them open last night, and they're alive.
Today we checked back on them all day. None of them came out of the shells. They've moved around in the shell but not sticking their heads out. We noticed one isn't responding to anything and fear that it hasn't made it.
My question is, what do I do in order to keep the other 2 alive? I really want them to live but I don't know how. I can't find anything online about what's suppose to happen next. I really would like to know ASAP so I'm not up all night thinking about them :(
I'm not a breeder, I just have 3 ball pythons as pets and I've never done this before. This is my female's first 'clutch' and I didn't know she was pregnant in the first place, until the day I took her out to feed her and there was eggs.
I'll do anything for the babies to live!
Any help would be wonderful.
Thanks
Re: HELP! How do I get them to survive?
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Originally Posted by
heathers*bps
What exactly are you doing to the one that isn't responding to anything? I know when I touch babies in the egg, they will move.
It sometimes takes babies almost a week to fully come out of the egg.
Is there still a lot of fluid in the eggs? What color is the fluid? Pictures would be extremely helpful!
I touch them with the tip of my finger to see if they're alive.
I don't know how much fluid is in the eggs, and I don't want the snakes to dry up. I don't have an incubator and I'm not sure what the temperature for them is suppose to be at the stage they're in.
This is where they are, in my garage. I live in Florida so the temperature during the day has been around 80-85, I added the light for more heat but I don't know if the light is drying them out?
This is what it looks like:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y19...s/DSC_1402.jpg
There's only 3 eggs. There was 4 at the beginning but one rotted within the first week.
The first 2 pictures are the 2 that are still moving when I touch them.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y19...s/DSC_1403.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y19...s/DSC_1404.jpg
This one is the one that isn't moving:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y19...s/DSC_1405.jpg
All 3
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y19...s/DSC_1406.jpg
Re: HELP! How do I get them to survive?
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Originally Posted by
purplemuffin
Another question is how did the female get gravid in the first place? Are your snakes housed together? If so, now would be a good time to separate them, so this doesn't happen again! :O
I've never had eggs, but I know there are a lot of people here who have bred them successfully here who will help you!
I have a big cage that my boyfriend built for me, I have 2 normal ball pythons and an albino in it. 2 are males and 1 is a female.
I wouldn't mind breeding them one day (too late) but I'm apparently under-educated in it. & I didn't think the 2 males could get her pregnant because of how small they are :confused:
I've tried to read up on as much as I can about everything that I'd need to know, but can't seem too find a source that will help me out through everything.